Public Art

120 feet of 1″ copper refrigeration tubing and 70 feet of rigid copper pipe. Total weight about 75 lbs. I love copper based metals for their sensitivity, integrity and color

We bent the coils into shape using iron bars for leverage and drilled holes for the rungs on a drill press. Here, it is suspended from ceiling to keep it from collapsing. Concrete pouring tube in center of sculpture to gauge how the ladder would relate to wrapping around column

After getting the overall shape, we soldered the rungs for stability and cut the tubing into sections, so that on site, it could be fitted around column and bolted together